Three months passed in a flash.

Yang Chao has never been superstitious about authority, although Lao Jin is a well-known member of the Qi family army and has followed Qi Jiguang's descendants to the battlefield, but if he can't prove that his own methods are right, Yang Chao will not unconditionally obey him.

Yang Chao has been analyzing through various data statistics.

In the last competition, Yang Chao found that after Lao Jin's selection, the level of soldiers who practiced assassination or archery had improved, and the improvement was great.

In the past, Yang Chao strictly trained soldiers, such as assassination and archery, eight out of ten for the excellent, six out of ten for good, four out of ten can get a flat word, three out of ten is poor, most of the soldiers of Yang Chao are good and peaceful, only one-tenth can get excellent, now after three months of training by Lao Jin, test again, and the results found that the excellent accounted for three percent, the good accounted for more than forty percent, the flat is two percent, and the difference is less than one percent.

More than seventy percent of the soldiers are excellent in martial arts, which can be called elite soldiers, only the battlefield experience is missing.

This level of martial arts, Lao Jin also admitted, is about the same as the Qi family's army, and then he began to practice.

Array, of course, is the Mandarin Duck Array.

Yang Chao has practiced before, but he has always been unable to do it, especially many of them have a headache for Yang Chao, and he has no way to start, even Yang Chao has a headache, not to mention that these soldiers with almost blank educational backgrounds are all blank.

Lao Jin was not in a hurry, he selected some deaf and clear-eyed soldiers, and then made a large number of flags.

Teaching them the banner and drum of the Qi family army to convey the news will naturally not be possible overnight, and although Lao Jin has been in the army for many years, it is impossible to master all the skills of the general.

Lao Jin understands the flag signals in the Qi family's army, and he can also understand the drums and whistles. But he can't blow, and the flag doesn't require much advanced skill, so Lao Jin can only teach the method of flag signaling.

So he practiced during the day. Flag practice at night.

Another month has passed, and the flag is still unknown. But the formation has worked.

Lao Jin's mandarin duck array, 12 people in the small array, 100 people in the large array, the order is prohibited, and it is quite imposing.

When Yang Chao praised him, Lao Jin became polite, saying that Yang Chao's basic practice was good, especially the method of walking and turning. Without these, it would be impossible for him to let the soldiers order to prohibit him, and this was the first time that Lao Jin affirmed Yang Chao's practice.

In addition to daily training, Yang Chao still did not give up sailing, anyway, there was only one team of soldiers every time, a total of only forty people, accounting for only one-tenth, and the rotation was adopted, each soldier actually only had his turn to sail once in ten days, so it did not affect the training.

So business does as it goes. And it expanded, because Yang Chao added two more ships, a total of three big ships. He could escort thirty merchant ships on a voyage at a time, with a fleet of twelve people per ship, and only forty men with four veteran shipwrights.

As for the income has not increased much compared with before, probably because of saturation, there is always a limit to the cargo on both sides of the strait, but Yang Chao has asked Zhang Dawei to lead people to prepare to open up a voyage, first open the route from Nanjing to Guazhou on the north bank and Zhenjiang on the south bank, which is equivalent to operating a safe route from Nanjing to Yangzhou, Suzhou and Hangzhou.

And with Zhang Dawei. is the most elite Wang Pu, Wang Pu is the current flag president. There are three teams of elite soldiers, each with its own leather armor. Let him escort Lao Zhang's ship foolproof, and after operating these two lines, he also has to take into account the sea trade to the east.

In addition, it is also planned to open up the upstream route to Jiujiang, then let Zhao Kang go, with Jiujiang as the center, responsible for the trade of the two lakes, but recently the two lakes are fighting, many merchants in Wuchang, Jiujiang and other places have fled to Nanjing, Yang Chao became a thousand generals, often see the Di newspaper, learned that Zuo Liangyu's army was defeated in Henan first by Li Zicheng, and then defeated by Zhang Xianzhong in Hubei, the army retreated to Jiujiang, and looted the people, so that the merchants of Jiujiang also fled to Nanjing.

Affected by this, Yang Chao of the Jiujiang Line gave up for the time being, but the line to Zhenjiang and Guazhou has been done for more than a month, and the road has also come out.

At noon, the camp was rehearsing the military formation, and Yang Chao carefully followed Lao Jin to study.

Suddenly, there was a commotion at the camp gate, Yang Chao frowned, but saw a group of people entering the camp, holding their heads high in their hands and shouting loudly.

"My lord, mark the eighteenth level of Wang Pu's big beheading of Jiang bandits, fortunately not disgraced!"

Wang Pu returned to the camp and was still boasting.

This guy has made a lot of gains recently, because the journey to Zhenjiang and Guazhou is long and no one knows the name of Yang Chao's army, so there are often some unknown Jiang bandits who want to come to the catastrophe, and they are often defeated by Wang Pu, cut off their heads and come back to ask for credit.

But this guy has been a little too flamboyant recently, especially what makes Yang Chao dissatisfied is that this guy doesn't accept Lao Jin at all, he refuses to talk about his heart during training, and often walks some mandarin duck formations useless theory, and arrogantly says that fighting is a rush of courage, and the first level will be in hand.

He is currently the most successful officer in the army, and his words are quite marketable in the barracks, and many soldiers believe them, so they don't pay much attention to the mandarin duck formation.

Yang Chao knew that the reason why Wang Pu was dissatisfied with Lao Jin was that Lao Jin thought that his qualifications were average and he was not suitable for practicing big guns, but Wang Pu had a big waist and a round waist, and he liked to brush big guns, so he was very dissatisfied with Lao Jin.

A few days after Lao Jin began to train the army, he was frivolous in his language, pretending to have the courage to challenge Lao Jin, but he was cleaned up very miserably by Lao Jin, Wang Pu also admitted that he used a gun Lao Jin empty-handed, he couldn't hold ten moves, he used a knife Lao Jin empty-handed, he couldn't hold three moves, he was empty-handed Lao Jin was also empty-handed, he could only pass one move, if Lao Jin used a knife, he didn't dare to do it.

So in terms of force, he had already given up provocation, but after Lao Jin started to practice this month, he began to speak coldly again, disdainful of Lao Jin's Mandarin Duck Formation, and also pulled out Yang Chao's endorsement, saying that the wall formation practiced by Lord Yang was a hundred times stronger than Lao Jin's Mandarin Duck Formation.

Wang Pu was so confident in Yang Chao's wall array that Yang Chao could only smile bitterly, Yang Chao himself didn't believe that the wall array he pulled out casually could fight against Qi Jiguang's mandarin duck array, so he could only believe that Wang Pu was deliberately provoking Lao Jin with his own life.

For this reason, Yang Chao reprimanded him privately, and even beat him before setting sail yesterday, but this kid refused to change his teachings repeatedly, and he made a noise as soon as he came back.

"Come on, disturb the trouble, pull it down and hit the thirty boards!"

In fact, in terms of crime, Wang Pu This is the Xiaoju military camp and should be beheaded, Yang Chao can't cut off his head because of this incident, he can only be convicted of a misdemeanor.

Wang Pu was suddenly depressed, and then he remembered that there was such a thing as military law, and it was also because he was too excited to win again, he originally thought that there were so many heads, he should be promoted to the general, at least he had to be a hundred general, but he didn't expect that the official was not promoted, and he was beaten first.

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